Word: commonality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshman Crew meeting held last night in Smith Halls Common Room 210 candidates reported. The first year men were addressed by Captain Forresser Clark '29, Coach Bert Haines, and F. L. Sulivan...
Open undergraduate criticism of collage professors and administrators, not many years ago regarded either as a mark of reprehensible precocity or as an encouraging sign of Intellectual alertness, has now become so common as to attract little more than passing notice. The scales are even beginning to tip in the opposite direction and the college public to become cloyed with an increasing flood of student opinions on courses, regulations, professional personalities and academic experiments...
...spoke of hurricanes. "They are probably gentle little eddies of air at first," he said, "but gather momentum owing to differences in temperature and air pressure until they become gigantic whirls, sucking air toward their central vortices like gargantuan vacuum cleaners." Caribbean hurricanes of more or less violence are common near the autumnal Equinox. Last week's winds were reported to have attained at times the unusual velocity...
...response, the Spaniard raised his glass first to Their Swedish Majesties and then to his own Queen Victoria Eugenie, who, explained he, was not present, solely because of ill health. Since Queen Victoria of Sweden is nearly always indisposed, the monarchs have that bond in common. They cemented cordial relations, later in the week, by indulging together in the "Royal Sport of Scandinavia," slaying moose...
...which enthusiastic tourists like to call mountains. As gentle as the hills, as placid as the river, the Berkshire villages rise to break the pleasant monotony of the landscape. Their generous houses, most white and clean, front on broad streets with here and there a stretch of New England common. Their lawns slope gracefully to the languid river. Such a village is Stockbridge...